BRITISH and European businesses should join forces to put pressure on the European Union to deliver a mutually beneficial Brexit trade deal, Nigel Farage has declared.

The staunch Brexit supporter said the UK Government should work with EU businesses to pressure the bloc into negotiating a good deal with Britain.

Mr Farage said: "I have been arguing for a year now that we should be lobbying European companies.

"We should be lobbying European businesses, European trade unions because there are lots and lots of people in places like Munich who wanna go on selling their cars in the UK without having a 10 per cent car tariff put upon them."

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Nigel Farage said businesses can put pressure on the EU to deliver a Brexit deal

"I don’t see any evidence that the Government has done that. We’re too busy talking to people like Barnier, Juncker and Verhofstadt who, frankly, do not want to play ball."

Speaking from Austria during his daily LBC radio show, the British politician also discussed comments made by German MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel.

Mr Farage said: "Very interesting comments yesterday in London from a man that I know, Hans-Olaf Henkel. He’s an MEP, he was elected on the AfD’s list originally. He’s not with them anymore.

"He’s a former head of the Federation of German Industries – that’s their equivalent of the CBI. He says that what Barnier is doing is he’s asking Britain to name a price without knowing what we’re going to get for it.

"He’s right, isn’t he? He says – as somebody who spent his life in German industry – that Britain should have the best deal possible."